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Site Seeing
Economy Of Meaning is a project from Danish sound artist Kristoffer Kjærskov. Based around field recordings captured during a 2021 residency at Sharjah Art Foundation in the U.A.E., ‘Site Seeing’ is a hypnagogic collage of gentle ambience, fragments of acoustic instrumentation and found sound.
At Home at Night
* Edition of 100, hand-humbered * At Home is a recording of a live performance at 01, Whitechapel Gallery's sound night. It consists of samples from Ziad Nagy's parents' wedding video.
Ziad Nagy (b.1989) is an interdisciplinary artist. He uses found material in an array of mediums to create interventions that are broadly existential: identity, life, death and time. He currently resides in London.
I've Had It up to Hear with Fish & Chips
* Edition of 300, hand-humbered + Obi * I've Had It up to Hear with Fish & Chips by Ben Ellul-Knight and Tom White is a hörspiel about 'care work' of all kinds. In part it is auto-ethnographic, as it draws on Ben's experience working as a play worker, social worker and as a volunteer with refugee and asylum-seeker support services. More personal reflections are mixed with conversations Ben had with support workers, social workers, play workers and mental health nurses to form a script. Different…
Fore Main Mizzen
* Edition of 300, hand-humbered + Obi * Fore Main Mizzen is made entirely from sound recordings taken on visits to Southend-on-Sea and Sheerness that are specifically focused on The SS Richard Montgomery, a ship that sank in the Thames estuary during World War Two. It is lying on a sandbank packed full of the high explosives it was transporting. At low tide its masts are visible from Southend and Sheerness either side of the water. The ship is corroding in the salt water and it is unknown when i…
Sonograph Sound Effects Series Volume 2: Public and Domestic Plumbing and Sanitation
** Edition of 300 ** Mark Vernon presents the second volume of his Sonograph Sound Effects Series – the follow up to the unexpectedly popular ‘Sounds of the Modern Hospital’ LP. This time the focus is on sounds of plumbing and sanitation: drainpipes, plugholes, leaks, squeaky taps and cisterns. Vernon has recorded many of the sounds from unusual perspectives, in extreme close-up scenarios, using contact mics or small binaural microphones to get into tiny inaccessible spaces. There is also a part…